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https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/powell20200211a.htm
I've read elsewhere that the Roman Republic had a reputation for ruling its far-flung possessions outside of the Roman heartlands as a kind of raubwirtschaft economy -- often with the need for the state to govern the provinces in a more sustainable manner conducive to long-term prosperity being cited as one of the reasons the republic had to be replaced by the Roman empire/principate.
On the other hand, the case of Verres' prosecution points to some level of accountability for Roman Republican governors, although I'm not sure whether Verres' crimes were so much plundering Sicily or whether it was just that he was using the plunder to enrich himself rather than the Roman state. Additionally, the case of Attalus III voluntarily bequeathing Pergamon to the Roman Republic seems like it would have been a strange choice if the Roman Republic was too consistently rapacious or corrupt in its treatment of the provinces.
How corrupt and rapacious was the Roman Republic in its rule of its provincial territories? How effectively and consistently did it crack down on corruption? Was the Verres case the rule, or a rare exception?
On page 20 we get a mention of Darth Tanis creating a kyber weapon on the planet Malachor in 4000bby. Malachor V was a planet introduced in the Kotor II game where the Sith Lord Darth Revan used the mass shadow generator to destroy a sith fleet in 3960bby.
On page 26 it mentions that Kylo needed to complete a sith trial of ascendancy by sacrificing a loved one. This allows him to unlock new depths of darkside power. This idea can be seen in the Darth Plagueis novel
On page 31 we learn that the illusion Luke used on crait was a Fallanassi technique called Similfuturus. The Fallanassi or โadepts of the white currentโ was an almost all female force using religious order that focused on illusions that came from the Black Fleet Crisis Series. Similfuturus or Doppleganger was a technique that allowed people to create force phantoms of themselves or others and first appeared in Dark Empire
On page 40 it says the Rammahgon is a well known book that was thought lost over 5,000 years ago on the planet Ossus. Ossus was a planet that housed one of the original Jedi temples and first appeared in Legends in Tales of the Jedi. The temple and planet were abandoned after a supernova hit the planet in 3996 BBY
On page 41 we are told that annotations to one of the ancient texts that says annotations to the book were added in by Jedi Master Odan-Urr. Odan Urr also first appeared in Tales of the Jedi and was responsible for the building of the great library on Ossus in 5000bby.
Another entry mentions a description of the notable beasts of Tython. In legends Tython was the original birthplace of the jedi and first appeared in Darth Bane Rule of Two.
Tionese script is also mentioned. The Tionese were a group of humans from the Tion Cluster in the early days of hyperspace travel. The best known member of the race was Xim the Despot, a legendary pirate king who created the Kingdom of Cron in 25100BBY
On page 44 Albrekh, the person who restores Kylo Renโs helmet, is called a Sith Alchemist. Sith Alchemy was the process of using sith magics along with technology to create enchanted weapons, items, and even warbeasts. Sith Alchemy was first mentioned in the endnotes of the Dark Empire comic.
On page 51 it states that after decades in the wilderness General Pryde longs to return to the trappings of high human culture. High human culture was the Galatic Empires policy of humanocentric speciesism, or the belief that humans are naturally superior to other species.
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